A+ Essentials Chapter 4

What is the primary reason that DDR2 RAM is potentially faster than DDR RAM?

Steve adds a second 512-MB 240-pin DIMM to his PC, which should bringthe total RAM in the system up to 1 GB. The PC has a Pentium 4 3.2-GHzprocessor and three 240-pin DIMM slots on the motherboard. When he turnson the PC, however, the RAM count only shows 512 MB of RAM. Which of thefollowing is most likely to be the problem?

What is the best way to determine the total capacity and specific type of RAMyour system can handle?

What is the term for the delay in the RAM’s response to a request from the MCC?

Scott wants to add 512 MB of PC100 SDRAM to an aging but still usefuldesktop system. The system has a 100-MHz motherboard and currently has256 MB of non-ECC SDRAM in the system. What else does he need to knowbefore installing?

Rico has a motherboard with four RAM slots that doesn’t seem to work. Hehas two RDRAM RIMMs installed, for a total of 1 GB of memory, but thesystem won’t boot. What is likely to be the problem?

Motherboards that support more than four sticks of RAM may require what tofunction properly?